Waste and Recycling A-Z

Food tins and cans

  • Cans
  • Tins

Please rinse. 

All clean food tins and drink cans can be recycled using your clear sack or orange-lidded bank recycling service.

See our page What to put in clear sacks and orange-lidded recycling banks for more details

We cannot recycle

  • Aerosol cans
  • Foil or foil containers
  • Large biscuit tins
  • Sweet tins 

These cause problems at the sorting plant, but you can recycle them in the scrap metal bay at Household Waste and Recycling Centre in Smugglers Way, Wandsworth.